Quotes About Vanity

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,

and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

You say, ëI am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.í But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ëI sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.í

And they will say: “The fruit of your soulís desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”

saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!